Posted on 03/09/2017 6:35:35 PM PST by drewh
Federal investigators and computer scientists continue to examine whether there was a computer server connection between the Trump Organization and a Russian bank, sources close to the investigation tell CNN.
Questions about the possible connection were widely dismissed four months ago. But the FBI's investigation remains open, the sources said, and is in the hands of the FBI's counterintelligence team -- the same one looking into Russia's suspected interference in the 2016 election.
One U.S. official said investigators find the server relationship "odd" and are not ignoring it. But the official said there is still more work for the FBI to do. Investigators have not yet determined whether a connection would be significant.
The server issue surfaced again this weekend, mentioned in a Breitbart article that, according to a White House official, sparked President Trump's series of tweets accusing investigators of tapping his phone. CNN is told there was no Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant on the server.
The FBI declined to comment. The White House did not respond to a request for comment.
In addition, companies involved have provided CNN with new explanations that at times conflict with each other and still don't fully explain what happened. The story -- of a possible connection between computer servers -- is a strange tale because there are no specific allegations of wrongdoing and only vague technical evidence.
Internet data shows that last summer, a computer server owned by Russia-based Alfa Bank repeatedly looked up the contact information for a computer server being used by the Trump Organization -- far more than other companies did, representing 80% of all lookups to the Trump server.
It's unclear if the Trump Organization server itself did anything in return. No one has produced evidence that the servers actually communicated.
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It’s all lies justify doubting Trump.
Four months of investigation and nada.
On an account establshed in 2009
Why isn’t this resolved?
“...to justify doubting Trump.”
“Alfa Bank has maintained that the most likely explanation is that the server communication was the result of spam marketing
I get about a hundred spam emails a day, sometime one hundred fifty. And I am not a billionaire.
One (unnamed) U.S. official said investigators find the server relationship “odd
Everybody drink!
the CIA can leave footprints that make it appear to be some other foreign country. this is in the wikileaks dump. so the CIA was pinging the trump server to make it look like the ruskies were doing it so they could create a plausible reason to surveil trumps servers.
I think they've already said this server used to be used for some marketing, so it very well may still have had DNS pointing at it.
I am SO tired of this!!! I wish Trump would put a nail in that coffin... and I wish those who are not against Trump, would tell every one who they have on their shows, to stuff it.. shut up until they have proof ... and to deal with their side.. with their trash.. with their lies.. before they keep this lie alive by repeating it and repeating it.
The NSA prolly did it.
The left has been squawking about Russia’s alleged election involvement for 5 months Has anyone seen one scrap of evidence Trump is criminally colluding with the Russians or is a Russian spy?
this is all a ruse to continute the ‘investigation’ so that loretta lynch doesnt end up in supermax...
How is the above theory NOT plausible?
So what? Trump organization is an international organization, they might have quite legitimately connected with Russian, Chinese, LaLaLand banks.
I repeat, so what?
Next?
Director Spicer says the Russia Fake News is regurgitating crap.
So what does CNN do? “the FBI’s investigation remains open, the sources said...”
Unreal. These people are completely morally bankrupt and out of bullets.
With Trump organization or Trump Tower?
There is a Chinese Bank in Trump Tower. What are the chances that all these hits are regular banking being done between the two?
Reminds me of a cousin who is a pastor. Some years ago he bought a nice boat. He named it "Visitation". So whenever he took it out and the phone rang at his house and someone asked for the pastor, his wife would tell them "He's out on Visitation."
Sounds like nothing. If anything phish were sniffing around the Trump organization machine.
And who was runng the Russian box doing the sniffing? Was it commandeered by a bot, as is very common.
The journalists in the media are a quite unintelligent lot and are unnable to understand enough to write informatively on a topic like this. It becones meaningless gibberish
e.g. a computer looked up another computer’s information.
What? This is nonsense when what is meant could actually be written but the news people are too stupid to understand basic terms most of the populace now know.
Their stupidity also makes them easy to hoodwink with idiocy such as this.
It’s my understanding that the computer or server in Trump Tower that’s connected to a Russian bank has nothing to do with Trump. One of Trump’s tenants in the Tower is a Chinese bank. THEY have a link with the Russian bank, naturally. And Obunga and the ‘Rats KNOW this, but they used it as a lying ruse for getting the FISA warrant, anyhow.
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